Senior Software Developer – Process Optimization

Are you our new Senior Developer for the Process Optimization team? Leading by example, setting the right quality standards, and coaching our agile development team, which is distributed across the world? Are you eager to design, maintain, and grow the data-driven solutions for our Digital Services Platform?

What will you be doing?

As part of the Process Optimization team, you will drive Vanderlande’s digital transformation by developing data-driven services for advanced customer insights. Collaborating with data scientists, engineers, developers, a QA engineer, and a UX designer, you will work on data utilization for process optimization and AI. The team operates from the Netherlands and India. In your role as a Senior Software Developer, you will play a key part in delivering effective process optimization solutions.

Vanderlande offers a diverse range of solutions, presenting opportunities for data collection and solution deployment. However, challenges arise in creating reusable software components to streamline development and deployment.

Working with the Product Owner and team, you will implement solutions reusable across multiple products. Coordination with company SMEs and department architects is crucial to ensure seamless integration of the process optimization product within the broader department architecture.

Responsibilities

• Develop process optimization solutions based on business requirements and priorities.
• Proactively integrate technical aspects within the team.
• Support the agile team in organizing around planned topics.
• Collaborate with department experts to build data pipelines, models, and dashboards.
• Contribute to the reusable architecture aligned with the Digital Service Platform.
• Participate in productizing and deploying data pipelines and algorithms.
• Develop back-end systems and APIs to visualize Digital Service insights in front-end applications and the customer portal.
• Act proactively in bringing things together technically within the team.

What do we ask from you?

• Extensive practical knowledge of data pipelines, big data, and architecture design patterns.
• Familiarity with Apache Spark and/or Databricks.
• Experience with databases, ElasticSearch is a plus.
• Proven experience in designing and improving product architecture.
• Proven ability to solve real-world problems with data-driven solutions.
• Must have: Knowledge in back-end development, including Java, SQL, and Python.
• Must have: Strong knowledge of Cloud computing, particularly Azure.

About the Team

Join the forefront of digitalization at Vanderlande, a company moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage annually at 600 airports and handling 52 million parcels daily in the parcel market. Embrace the challenge of building data-driven models to enhance our customer services. Be part of the Digital Service Platform team, contributing to Vanderlande’s journey to become more data-driven. Enjoy learning and sharing within Vanderlande’s Agile Development community, explore personal growth opportunities, and embark on a high-performing team journey. Join over 80 highly skilled and motivated colleagues at Vanderlande’s Digital Service Platform stream.

What do we offer?

In the challenging and responsible position of Senior Developer, you will have the chance to make a significant contribution to industry-leading projects and be connected to our dedicated people and customers. We offer a position in an informal, international and professional working environment with a lot of scope for personal development. By joining our profitable and growing company you will be able to reach your goals and focus on your future.

• 40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days).
• Flexible working hours.
• A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office).
• A Health & Wellbeing budget worth €300 per calendar year.
• Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of travel by public transport.
• Working from home allowance.
• Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance.
• Vanderlande Academy and training facilities to boost your skills.
• A variety in Vanderlande Network communities and initiatives.
• And a great company restaurant and coffee bar with barista.

Diversity & Inclusion

Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.